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Major United States Laws Relating to Immigration and Naturalization: 1790–2005

From the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.

Mexican Migration Project / Proyecto Sobre Migracion Mexicana

An ongoing binational research effort that aims to study and document the process of Mexican migration to the United States.

Migration from Northern Europe to America via the Port of Hull, 1848-1888 by Nick Evans- The Solem, Swiggum & Austheim Ship Index

Migrations in Luxembourg - A Historical Sketch

Mormon Migration

About 90,000 Latter-day Saint converts crossed the oceans during the 19th century, heeding a call to come to Zion. The Mormon Migration website offers inspiring accounts of their journeys. The autobiographies, journals, diaries, reminiscences, images, and letters link to hundreds of known LDS immigrant voyages and provide a composite history of Mormon immigration to America.

National Dialogues on Immigration

Beginning in January 2014, twenty museums and historic sites across the United States launched the National Dialogues on Immigration Project: a bold, new public initiative to use historical perspective to foster dialogue on immigration issues among people with diverse perspectives and backgrounds through visceral encounters with the past. Continuing throughout 2015, this cross-regional series is designed to spark a new national conversation on critical immigration themes of Citizenship and American Identity, Restrictions and Legality, Borders and Freedom of Movement, and Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.

Naturalization Records

This database includes records from the following jurisdictions: NARA in New York City, Bronx County, Nassau County, Queens County, Richmond County, Suffolk County. From the German Genealogy Group.

Olive Tree Genealogy: 17th Century Immigrants to New York Registry

Online New York Naturalization Records and Indexes

A directory of online New York naturalization indexes listed by county. By Joe Beine.

Pioneer Sikh Asian East Indian Immigration to the Pacific Coast from Punjab

Includes a chronology, historical photos, and a list of research specialists.

Polish Immigration Records : 1834 - 1897

Searchable database of records on approximately 90,000 passengers who arrived at the United States between 1834 through 1897 and identified their country of origin or nationality as Poland or Polish.

Queensland State Archives | Courts

Criminal Depositions 1861-1885; Divorces 1861-1894; Equity files 1857-1895; Inquests 1859-1886; Instruments of renunciation 1915-1983 Justices of the Peace 1857-1910; Naturalisations 1851-1904; Trustees files 1889-1929; Wills 1857-1940.

Queensland State Archives | Immigration

Several indexes are available here and individual entries can be ordered from the Archives. The indexes included are: Assistant Immigration Agent Maryborough 1875-1884; Assistant Immigration Agent Maryborough 1884-1907; Assisted Immigration 1848-1912 (this is a new index that points to digital copies online); Card Index to Nominated Immigrants 1908-1922 Immigration 1922-1940; Land Orders 1861-1874; Passage Certificates 1887-1906; Passport Register 1926-1939; Register of Immigrants 1864-1878; Registers of Immigrants, Brisbane 1885-1917.

Saratoga County Naturalization Records On-line Viewing Instructions

1906

Shelby County Register of Deeds

Tennessee Vital Records: Death Records Index 1949-2009; Divorce Records Index 1980-2009; Marriage Records Index 1980-2009. Shelby County Records: Birth Records 1874-1912; Chancery Court Divorce Index 1945-1997; Circuit Court Indexes 1893-2000; Death Records 1848-1963; Land Bank Properties For Sale; Marriage Indexes/Images 1920-1989; Marriage Records 1820-1983; Memphis Census 1865; Memphis City Directories 1849-1943; Memphis Police Blotter 1858-1860; Memphis Provost Marshal 1863-1865; Naturalization Records 1856-1906; Occupant, Entry, and Survey Books 1819-1962; Probate Court Loose Paper Index 1820-1900; Probate Court Will Book Indexes/Images 1830-2000; Quarterly Court Loose Papers Index 1820-1865.

State Archives and Records NSW - Assisted Immigrants Index

Assisted immigrants arriving in Sydney and Newcastle 1844-59, Moreton Bay 1848-59 and Port Phillip 1839-51. The term 'assisted immigrant' refers to those people whose passage was subsidised or paid for through one of the several assisted immigration schemes which operated to New South Wales from the United Kingdom and other countries.

Taylor & Francis Online :: Work in progress: Indirect passage from Europe Transmigration via the UK, 1836

Freely accessible article on European emigration to the USA and Canada via the UK, 1836-1914. Taken from Indirect Passage from Europe. European Transmigration via the UK, 1836-1914

The Making of a Melting Pot - Irish Immigration to America From 1700 to the early 1800s

The Transatlantic Crossing, Norwegian emigrants on the Atlantic

Story of how the Norwegians going to America in the time between 1825 and 1925 would travel. Also gives some insight into the amazing development in how ships were constructed and the transportation arranged to meet the demands of the increasing number of people on the move. Even though this is about the experience of Norwegian emigrants, the experiences and conditions of travel will be much the same regardless of nationality.

Toten emigrant 1846

Emigrants from Toten, Oppland, Norway. This is a remarkable record of the efforts, over 15 years, of Ole Granum to record and note the parents and the destinations of more than 15,000 emigrants who left Toten (East and West) between 1846 and 1966. It is listed by year, not by name, unfortunately.